A striking California residence that was built to serve as the governor’s mansion for Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, has come on the market for $7.5 million.
Though it is a far cry from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., 2300 California Ave. represents its own very significant heritage, having been commissioned by the couple in the late 1960s, soon after Reagan was elected as governor of the Golden State.
The sprawling eight-bedroom estate, which is located in Carmichael, was envisioned as a very modern take on the traditional political property, marking a stark departure from the previous governor’s mansion, an aging Victorian mansion in downtown Sacramento that the Reagans famously refused to live in…